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Stage Play: ON THE HOLY TRAIL
Staged By: The Mustard Seed Art Company
Where: Kala Academy - Mini Open-air Auditorium
When: Dec 20 & 21, 2007 @ 7pm
Read a Review at:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-December/066558.html
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Dear Mr Edward desilva
I have been wanting to address your display of ignorance for some time but,
unfortunately, have lacked the time. For now, I will first address your daft
point that, those attacking caste/casteism have an inferiority complex because
they are not Bamons.
Well, I am a republican at heart and reject monarchy. In short, I am an
anti-monarchist despite living in a monarchy led nation like the UK. According
to your logic, I display anti-monarchy tendencies because deep down, I really
want to be Prince Charles or be in his shoes! Do you get my point?
I have been a staunch anti-racist activist too. According to your logic, deep
down, I really admired those racists that infested the UK in the past but
couldn't be one because I was not white! Do you read me?
I was strongly anti the Vietnam War in the early 1970s and actively
demonstrated against it. As per your logic, all along, I desperately wanted to
be an American and pro Johnson and Nixon and their Vietnam policy!
I was strongly against apartheid in South Africa and actively demonstrated
against it, often, in front of South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London,
and even got arrested once. According to your logic, I was a closet pro
Afrikaner Boer all along!
Those women who chained themselves to railings fighting for the
suffrage/equal voting rights etc, did so because they were upset that they were
not men who had the vote. Get it as per your logic?
Can you now see how crazy your logic is about those supposedly resentful for
not being Bamons and your logic's close overlay with the quick examples I have
provided?
Over Christmas, instead of indulging in feni and sorpotel, I suggest that,
you urgently read something pretty basic about modern social movements on
Google or wherever, to help us not to receive more of your nonsensical homespun
philosophy. Social movements often have quite unexpected leaders and adherents.
Because of them, the world is an infinitely better place to live in than when
run by, for example, self-styled/thinking 'mullahs' with their home spun
philosophy about women's education, their basic lifestyles and place in society
etc. In this respect, I ask if you are any different in your bigoted
expressions on Goanet about the anti-casteist social movement currently
expressing itself on Goanet?
And incidentally, re your go at Mario saying that he effectively had too much
time on his hands to waste time on the caste issue, please note that it is
generally accepted in institutions that if you want to get anything done in a
hurry, you ask a guy who is really busy and does actually have little time on
his hands. You are more likely to get an urgent task done by a busy guy than
one who has loads of time but never delivers!. Believe you me, the
anti-casteists on Goanet are really busy people otherwise, they would have
taken your ideas apart much sooner.
I ask too if you can recall if you have said anything remotely intelligent on
Goanet? If you have, kindly point it out to me so that I can reflect on it. I
also ask this because I was often told that Bamons had brains let alone class
as stated by your good self!
In another example, when you triumphantly said that, the reading age in the
UK was nine, did you really stop to think? What you entirely misunderstood is
that a reading age of 9 is enough to read our populist tabloid newspapers like
the Sun, Mirror, Mail etc. These are low denominator papers but whose editors
will have been to top universities. For good money, they generate papers for
people who do not want to spend more than perhaps twenty minutes reading a
daily newspaper (less than I require to read the Herald and Navind Times in Goa
incidentally). In contrast, a whole day is not enough to read the quality
papers in this part of the world. What do you think the reading age is of those
who read the quality press? Go on, try and guess!
You also said that you knew for a fact that the UK whites do not drink beers
with Indians (South Asians). This is total nonsense. Clearly, you do not have
the evidence (as also pointed out by Victor), and possibly have not been
outside your comfort zone of ignorance somewhere in Goa I presume. Consuming
beers is a business that requires many drinkers of every shade of colour. No
publican can afford to have drinkers with racial chips on their shoulders today
in any pub and it would be illegal too.
I could go on and on but hardly need to continue this clear message to you
that you really do talk nonsense on our esteemed Goanet. When are you going to
grow up man?
Sincerely
Cornel DaCosta, London, UK. with a "petty education".
edward desilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bravo Gabe and Cornel,
Because Gabe and you did not get killed and survived to tell your boasting
tales in itself proves that Caste System does not exist in every day Goan life
except in people who THINK they are of lower case and are suffering from
inferiority complex (resulting from some petty education they have received
which makes them think superior) .
Mario is living in a quagmire, just trying to revive a debate where none exists.
ED.
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